You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus.

Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.

I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.